lighting ideas and suggestions for the home

Bathroom

Bedroom

Dining Room

Kids Room

Kitchen

Lightbulb Types

Living Room

Study

The main light source here will be over the dining table. The use of a dimmer will allow the table to be used for jobs such as sewing and yet give a low mood light for dining.


Don’t hang a pendant so low that your diners have to peer round it, about 60cm above the table is about right. Better still fit a rise and fall pendant.


If you like to dine by candle light, make sure the heat and smoke are far enough away from the light fitting.  

Table

If you have a glass dining table, make sure the light is fitted with a diffuser so that your diners are not looking at a reflection of the light bulb.


Long tables can be very effectively lit with a longer light fitting suspended on two wires.